THE LIFE WORK OF A SCIENTIST; Familiar Pictures of an Important Career Set Forth in Entertaining Memoirs of Prof. N.S. Shaler.

THE interest in Dean Shaler's personality, extending far beyond the circles reached by the 7,000 students of Harvard who in forty years passed before the head of the scientific department of the university, an interest stimulated by the influence of his books on many topics of human as well as distinctively scientific importance, is enormously heightened by the reading of this book.* View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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